Analytics alternatives
Hotjar alternatives
The most-used analytics tools compared with Hotjar — pricing, strengths, and who each one is best for.
The 8 best alternatives to Hotjar
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GalileoEnterpriseAn enterprise platform for evaluating, monitoring, and guarding AI agents and LLM applications, including real-time protection against unsafe outputs.
- Evaluation, monitoring, and runtime guardrails in one platform
- Real-time detection of unsafe or off-policy outputs
LangSmithFreemiumAn observability and evaluation platform for LLM and agent applications — tracing, datasets, automated evals, and production monitoring in one place.
- End-to-end tracing for complex agent runs
- Datasets and automated evals in CI
Free session recordings, heatmaps, and AI-powered insights from Microsoft — no limits, no tiers.
- Completely free, no caps
- AI behavior insights
PostHogFreemiumOpen-source product analytics with session recording, feature flags, and A/B testing in one platform.
- All-in-one analytics + flags + replay
- Open source and self-hostable
Arize AIEnterpriseAn ML and LLM observability platform for monitoring model and agent performance, detecting drift, and tracing failures in production.
- Purpose-built for AI observability at scale
- Drift and performance-degradation detection
BraintrustFreemiumAn evaluation-first platform for AI applications — build eval datasets, run scored experiments, and monitor quality in production.
- Evaluation-first workflow for AI development
- Scored experiments replace guesswork
Comet OpikFreemiumAn open-source platform for LLM evaluation, tracing, and production monitoring, from the team behind the Comet ML experiment-tracking tool.
- Open-source tracing, evals, and monitoring
- Backed by an established ML tooling company
LangfuseFreemiumAn open-source observability and evaluation platform for LLM applications — tracing, prompt management, evals, and cost monitoring.
- Full tracing for LLM and agent applications
- Open-source and self-hostable for data residency
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